Vast TV Guide

**Peterhobit** · 21-06-11, 07:01 PM

I love the Vast TV guide "http://sattvguide.com.au/guides/VASTNSW/tv.html" but I have to chuckle when you hold the curser over tonight's viewing on ABC "The Young Ones" it gives the bio of the old Young Ones TV show from the 80's instead of the bio for this show. I used to love the young ones............must be old..........kill the hippy!!

**Smacca** · 22-06-11, 12:57 AM

Originally Posted by PeterHobit1

I love the Vast TV guide "http://sattvguide.com.au/guides/VASTNSW/tv.html" but I have to chuckle when you hold the curser over tonight's viewing on ABC "The Young Ones" it gives the bio of the old Young Ones TV show from the 80's instead of the bio for this show. I used to love the young ones............must be old..........kill the hippy!!

Not lentils again. Bloody hell, Neil, you're such a bastard!

That's OzTiVo's data for you. It uses descriptions from their database instead of from the broadcast. I'll just add another rule to the ever-growing list. If you spot any more, let me know.

Code:

<xsl:choose>
				<!-- News rules -->
				<xsl:when test="(='Today-5:30') or (='Today-early')"><xsl:text>Today</xsl:text></xsl:when>
				<xsl:when test="='Early Morning News'"><xsl:text>Nine Early Morning News</xsl:text></xsl:when>
				<xsl:when test="='National Morning News'"><xsl:text>Nine Morning News</xsl:text></xsl:when>
				<xsl:when test="(='News: First at Five') or (='National Afternoon News')"><xsl:text>Nine Afternoon News</xsl:text></xsl:when>
				<xsl:when test="(='Nine News') or (='National News') or (='National News Saturday') or (='National News Sunday')"><xsl:text>Nine News Perth</xsl:text></xsl:when>
				<xsl:when test="='WIN News'"><xsl:text>WIN News WA</xsl:text></xsl:when>
				<xsl:when test="='Weekend Today - Saturday'"><xsl:text>Weekend Today</xsl:text></xsl:when>
				<xsl:when test="='Weekend Today - Sunday'"><xsl:text>Weekend Today</xsl:text></xsl:when>
				<!-- Sports rules -->
				<xsl:when test="='The Sunday Footy Show'"><xsl:text>The Sunday Footy Show (AFL)</xsl:text></xsl:when>
				<xsl:when test="(='The Footy Show') and (contains(,'Sam Newman'))"><xsl:text>The Footy Show (AFL)</xsl:text></xsl:when>
				<xsl:when test="(='The Footy Show') and (contains(,'Fatty'))"><xsl:text>The Footy Show (NRL)</xsl:text></xsl:when>
				<xsl:when test="='Sunday Football'"><xsl:text>NRL Premiership</xsl:text></xsl:when>
				<xsl:when test="='Friday Night Football'"><xsl:text>NRL Premiership</xsl:text></xsl:when>
				<!-- Infomercial rules -->
				<xsl:when test="(='Danoz') or (='New Style Direct')"><xsl:text>Home Shopping</xsl:text></xsl:when>
				<!-- General rules -->
				<xsl:when test="='Late Show with David Letterman'"><xsl:text>The Late Show with David Letterman</xsl:text></xsl:when>
				<xsl:when test="='Kerri-Anne'"><xsl:text>Mornings with Kerri-Anne</xsl:text></xsl:when>
				<xsl:when test="='WIN Presents'"><xsl:text>Nine Presents</xsl:text></xsl:when>
				<xsl:when test="='BIG'"><xsl:text>BIG - Extreme Makeover</xsl:text></xsl:when>
				<xsl:when test="='Eclipse Music TV'"><xsl:text>Eclipse</xsl:text></xsl:when>
				<xsl:when test="='RESCUE SPECIAL OPS'"><xsl:text>Rescue Special Ops</xsl:text></xsl:when>
				<xsl:when test="='Polar Bear Spy On The Ice'"><xsl:text>Polar Bear: Spy on the Ice</xsl:text></xsl:when>
				<xsl:when test="='Masterchef'"><xsl:text>Masterchef Australia</xsl:text></xsl:when>
				<xsl:otherwise><xsl:value-of select="" /></xsl:otherwise>
			</xsl:choose>
<xsl:choose>
					<!-- Generic Rules -->
					<xsl:when test="(category='Movie') or (category='Movies') or (category='movies') or (category='movie')"><xsl:text>MOVIE: </xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="title" /></xsl:when>
					<xsl:when test="(title='Infomercials') or (title='Guthy-Renker Australia') or (title='Brand Developers') or (title='Danoz') or (title='Danoz Direct')"><xsl:text>Home Shopping</xsl:text></xsl:when>
					<!-- SCTVN Rules -->
					<xsl:when test="(title='Seven News') and (substring(@start,9,6)='180000')"><xsl:text>Seven News Brisbane</xsl:text></xsl:when>
					<xsl:when test="(title='Brothers &amp;Sisters') and (@channel='seven.free.au')"><xsl:text>Brothers and Sisters</xsl:text></xsl:when>
					<xsl:when test="(title='Winners &amp; Losers') and (@channel='seven.free.au')"><xsl:text>Winners and Losers</xsl:text></xsl:when>
					<!-- IMPN Rules -->
					<xsl:when test="title='The View'"><xsl:text>Home Shopping</xsl:text></xsl:when>
					<xsl:when test="title='Ellen DeGeneres Show'"><xsl:text>The Ellen DeGeneres Show</xsl:text></xsl:when>
					<xsl:when test="(title='Nine News') and (substring(@start,9,6)='170000')"><xsl:text>Nine Afternoon News</xsl:text></xsl:when>
					<xsl:when test="(title='Nine News') and (substring(@start,9,6)='180000')"><xsl:text>Nine News Brisbane</xsl:text></xsl:when>
					<xsl:when test="(title='NRL') and (@channel='nine.free.au')"><xsl:text>NRL Premiership</xsl:text></xsl:when>
					<xsl:when test="contains(title,'Friday Night Football')"><xsl:text>NRL Premiership</xsl:text></xsl:when>
					<xsl:when test="contains(title,'Sunday Football')"><xsl:text>NRL Premiership</xsl:text></xsl:when>
					<xsl:when test="contains(title,'s Early Morning News')"><xsl:text>Nine Early Morning News</xsl:text></xsl:when>
					<xsl:when test="title='The Sunday Footy Show'"><xsl:text>The Sunday Footy Show (NRL)</xsl:text></xsl:when>
					<xsl:when test="title='RPA - Where Are They Now?'"><xsl:text>RPA</xsl:text></xsl:when>
					<xsl:when test="title='Getaway Summer Series'"><xsl:text>Getaway</xsl:text></xsl:when>
					<xsl:when test="(title='Weekend Today - Saturday') or (title='Weekend Today - Sunday')"><xsl:text>Weekend Today</xsl:text></xsl:when>
					<xsl:when test="(title='Mornings with Kerri-Anne Summer Series') or (title='Saturday Kerri-Anne')"><xsl:text>Mornings with Kerri-Anne</xsl:text></xsl:when>
					<xsl:when test="(title='Mike &amp; Molly') and (@channel='nine.free.au')"><xsl:text>Mike and Molly</xsl:text></xsl:when>
					<xsl:when test="(title='The Footy Show') and (substring(@start,9,6)='213000')"><xsl:text>The Footy Show (NRL)</xsl:text></xsl:when>
					<xsl:when test="(title='The Footy Show') and (substring(@start,9,6)='231500')"><xsl:text>The Footy Show (AFL)</xsl:text></xsl:when>
					<xsl:when test="(title='Jessie Duplantis Ministries') and (@channel='nine.free.au')"><xsl:text>Home Shopping</xsl:text></xsl:when>
					<xsl:when test="(title='Life Today with James Robison') and (@channel='nine.free.au')"><xsl:text>Home Shopping</xsl:text></xsl:when>
					<!-- TENN Rules -->
					<xsl:when test="(title='Ten News') and (substring(@start,9,6)='090000')"><xsl:text>Ten Morning News</xsl:text></xsl:when>
					<xsl:when test="(title='Ten News') and (substring(@start,9,6)='170000')"><xsl:text>Ten News Brisbane</xsl:text></xsl:when>
					<xsl:when test="(title='Ten News at Five') and (substring(@start,9,6)='170000')"><xsl:text>Ten News Brisbane</xsl:text></xsl:when>
					<xsl:when test="(title='Ten Evening News') and (substring(@start,9,6)='180000')"><xsl:text>Ten News Brisbane</xsl:text></xsl:when>
					<xsl:otherwise><xsl:value-of select="title" /></xsl:otherwise>
				</xsl:choose>

**gordon_s1942** · 22-06-11, 02:49 PM

'Everything Old is New Again' appears to be the motto of the Digital FTA Terrestial channels based on some of the recently resurected programing.
However they will have to dig a little deeper to emulate the Sci-Fi channel on Pay with episodes of the Night Stalker, Karl Kolchek aka Darren Macgavin followed by an episode of the Twilight Zone hosted by Rod Serling and starring a Full Haired and Bearded Larry Hagman, 1974 and ?? in colour too I might add.

**briand** · 27-08-11, 09:47 AM

Anyone else getting a blank page on the guide today?

**OSIRUS** · 27-08-11, 10:44 AM

Originally Posted by briand

Anyone else getting a blank page on the guide today?

Working OK here

**manian** · 27-08-11, 11:21 AM

Originally Posted by briand

Anyone else getting a blank page on the guide today?

The Aurora guide is ok.

The VAST guide (guide view) returns a blank page. Viewing the VAST guide by individual channel (channel view) seems fine, though.

**Smacca** · 27-08-11, 05:32 PM

Originally Posted by briand

Anyone else getting a blank page on the guide today?

Whoops. I think I broke something. Hang in there...

**Smacca** · 27-08-11, 05:57 PM

Believe it or not, it was an ampersand (&) in the description of a show on Ten North/South that broke everything!

Code:

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: http://www.sattvguide.com.au/guides/VASTNT/tv.xml
Line Number 4750, Column 50:
<desc>Calling into Quamby, an old original Cobb & Co station, with a town population of just 5! And 2 of them are the barmaids. A true outback Aussie pub in all its glory. Then we go "down under literally, at the mines of Mt Isa.</desc>
-------------------------------------------------^

All fixed. Sorry guys.

**briand** · 27-08-11, 07:23 PM

Thanks Smacca, now working on IE9 but still not working on Firefox 7 beta (it was working on FF last night).

**Smacca** · 27-08-11, 07:25 PM

That would be the Firefox cache. Try changing the last bit of the URL from .html to .xml, press enter, refresh it, then go back to .html.

**briand** · 27-08-11, 07:35 PM

Yeah, cleared FF cache, all good, was doing that as you replied, thanks again.

**Smacca** · 27-08-11, 07:38 PM

No probs. If there's any other issues, feel free to leave them here, no matter how minor.

**Dishtrackted** · 28-08-11, 10:45 AM

The TV guide for Vast Qld is just the terrestrial TV guide
AFL on Vast Qld SCTV is on at 8.30 not 11.30 on Fridays
and on SCTV Aurora Central its on at 7,30
FTA has the AFL footy show on 7 mate at 10 AM Sunday
but Vast 7 mate doesn't .

**Smacca** · 28-08-11, 02:36 PM

Yeah, this is an ongoing problem. Basically all of the VAST channels are built using terrestrial guides from Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth. The guide data is then sifted through a bunch of filters which fixes the differences between terrestrial and VAST. For example, Imparja North and South use 9 Brisbane data, so the filters replace any instance of The View with Home Shopping. They also replace any instance of Postcards with 4WD TV, etc, etc.

When it comes to AFL, I need to make the changes manually. Usually by mid-week I'll have changed SC and Ten Central to show the correct AFL times, but there's still a few days where the incorrect times are shown (usually when the game is over 6 days away).

The only way of fixing this so manual changes never (or rarely) need to happen is to set up a network of volunteers in each VAST terrestrial zone to grab EPG data off-air using a DVB-T stick and then send that data to Sat TV Guide's database. Until something like that happens, the database will always rely on terrestrial data with filters and manual amendments.

Or perhaps there are some people out there with nothing better to do who can access Sat TV Guide's Admin website and make the changes themselves if I don't get to them in time?

Ultimately I want to just set and forget the database and let it work itself without any human interaction, but I think we're a long way off that.

**Tiny** · 28-08-11, 05:55 PM

Smacca your guide should be sponsored by the appropriate Govt/MySwitch/VAST department.

They should also supply you with a feed from their EPG database so you can automate the whole thing.

It would make sense since they haven't bothered to do one.

What am I thinking, why would the Govt do anything that makes sense?

I suppose we should be thankful that the Govt has given us VAST.

Thanks for the hard work Smacca.